Prof. Dr. Harry Liebersohn

Profile

Academic positionEmeritus
Research fieldsOther Areas of History
Keywordshistory of liberalism, history of music, travel, cultural contact, globalization

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityUrbana
InstitutionUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
InstituteDepartment of History, 309 Gregory Hall

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen OsterhammelFachbereich Geschichte, Soziologie, Sportwissenschaft und empirische Bildungsforschung, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz
Prof. Lars-Christian KochEthnologisches Museum, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2017

Programme(s)

2016Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Liebersohn is an international authority in global intellectual and cultural history. In a series of influential books he has explored a broad range of topics from European social thought around 1900 to the role of material objects in intercultural encounters, especially in the Pacific. In Germany he will advance and complete his new research project on the history of ethnomusicology and the globalization of music around 1900.

Publications (partial selection)

2019Harry Liebersohn: Music and the New Global Culture. The University of Chicago Press, 2019